David, On Sunday 25 December 2005 16:22, dwculp wrote:
I hope someone here can at least point me in the right direction :)
I am a middle school science teacher and run an after school robotics club. Each year we participate in a contest called Botball and the theme this year is searching for water on the moon using robots. As an advanced project I decided we should build our own semi-autonomus tele-operated rover capable of finding water ice in a soil sample. ...
The plan is to write a server that will stream out the sensor and video information from the robot to a client. There will be two clients, one on the robot that connects and interprets the information for semi-autonomus control and another remote client. ...
I have most of the details worked out except the streaming video part. Ive never done anything with streaming video - ever. What would be best would be a tutorial on how to setup a streaming server and how to program a simple client to connect to and view the stream either using Qt/KDE or GTK/Gnome.
Very cool. I'm not really up on Linux video, but a simple Web search for "Linux Video" turns up a lot of seemingly relevant pages. I'm really writing to ask you two things: 1) Please start a Web site to keep us posted on your progress with this project. I'm sure there are many people who would like to replicate, probably with variations, the project you're doing as well as simply watch your progress and find out what you've learned from doing it. 2) Don't use your mail client's "reply" function to start new topics. It breaks the topic threading in the mail clients of people using thread-capable mail clients such as Evolution, those from the Mozilla foundation or KMail. (But not, notably, Outlook, Outlook Express or Eudora.)
Any help?
The only other thing to say is that the Packman RPM repository (see http://www.opensuse.org/YaST_package_repository / http://www.opensuse.org/YaST_package_repository#Packman for access details) is usually the best and most comprehensive source for up-to-date media software for SuSE Linux.
David Culp
Randall Schulz